TEST

Group B Done on:_______________

Name: _________________
Class__________________

Points earned: _____ Grade: ____________

I Choose the correct words to complete the definitions:

1 A weapon is something you use to hurt / help people.
2 A crisis is a good / bad time.
3 An icon is a famous person / thing.
4 An invention is an old / a new idea.
5 When people live in poverty, they don’t have much money / water.

II Complete the sentences using the correct form of used to and the verbs in the box:
go not speak listen not eat work

1 When my granddad was fourteen he ______________________ very hard on the farm.

2 I ______________________ sweets when I was little. I didn’t like them!
3 __________________ you ______________________ to pop music in the sixties?
4 My mum _______________________ to anti-war protests when she was a teenager.
5 David _______________________ English when he was five.

III Rewrite the sentences using the past perfect:

1 I saw him. – ____________________________________________________________
2 We left. – ______________________________________________________________
3 Did you finish it? – _______________________________________________________
4 l didn’t eat lunch. – _______________________________________________________
5 Carlos swam across the river. – _____________________________________________

IV Choose the correct verb forms. Use the past simple and the past perfect in each sentence:
1 By the time we arrived / had arrived, the film started / had started.
2 I got / had got dressed after I had / had had a shower.
3 I didn’t want / hadn’t wanted dinner because I ate / had eaten earlier.
4 Zara didn’t watch / hadn’t watched the film before I bought / had bought her the DVD.
5 He was / had been late for class because he missed / had missed his bus.
V Match expressions 1–5 with meanings a–c:
1___ 2___ 3___ 4___ 5___

1 get together a get meaning ‘become’

2 get married b get meaning ‘receive / obtain’
3 get a present c phrasal verb
4 get better
5 get a driving licence

VI Complete the sentences. Use get or gets and an expression from the box:
upset a job on with the bus home

1 I usually __________________ to school.

2 Mum __________________ and shouts when I don’t tidy my room!
3 I don’t __________________ Freddie. He isn’t nice.
4 I need to __________________ so I can earn some money.
5 After I __________________, I usually do my homework. Then I have dinner.

VII Choose the correct verbs:

1 Josie was swimming / swum when she saw the dolphins.
2 What did you buy / were you buying at the supermarket?
3 I was talking to a friend when you were phoning / phoned me.
4 I was watching TV and I was reading / read at the same time.
5 She gave me some money and I went / was going shopping.

VIII Complete the sentences. Use the past simple or continuous form of the verbs:
sleep tell make look not do
1 At 6 p.m. on Sunday, my dad __________________ dinner.
2 I called her and I __________________ her the news.
3 I __________________ when you woke me.
4 I was walking through the park and I ________________ at the flowers.
5 Why ____________________ (you) your homework last week?